2024 budget: FG should meet with creditors to restructure debt, says Rewane
Bismarck Rewane, chief executive officer of Financial Derivatives, says the federal government should create more breathing space in the economy by meeting with creditors, including the International Monetary Fund…
Ogun West’s quest for power shift
Different shades of opinion have been expressed by various stakeholders about the imperative of power shift to Ogun West Senatorial District after the successful completion of the second tenure of Governor Dapo…
My wife bullies me, divorce seeking man tells court
“My wife bullies and blackmails me,” a divorce-seeking man, Kazeem Yekini, told a Mapo Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan, Oyo State on Thursday. The man pleaded…
Amid ravaging scourge, HIV cure, vaccine still elusive 42 years on
The hullabaloo the advent of the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) generated…
Aseyin, Soun to get staff of office Dec 14, 19 —Oyo govt
Oyo State Government, yesterday, said the presentation of staff of office and coronation of the new Aseyin of Iseyin, Oba Sefiu Oyebola, and the Soun of Ogbomoso, Oba Afolabi Laoye, will hold on December 14 and 19,…
Kanu’s family commends DSS ahead of Supreme Court judgment
The family of the detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has commended the Department of State Services, DSS, for complying with court orders on allowing the IPOB Leader access to his visitors.…
Controversy over Lagos ownership ‘ll soon end — Erelu Dosunmu
The Erelu Kuti IV of Lagos, Abiola Dosunmu has said that the controversy over ownership of Lagos will soon be put to rest with her new initiative. Dosunmu, who is also the Erelu Yeye Oodua, stated this at a briefing on…
Coup against lawmakers: How Senate stopped legislators’ replacement bill
IN what some lawmakers described as a coup against legislators, the Senate, on Tuesday, stepped down consideration of a bill seeking to allow political parties to nominate and replace serving members in National and states’…
Missing N43bn revenue: Reps threaten to issue arrest warrant on NAMA boss
The House of Representatives on Wednesday threatened to issue a warrant of arrest against the Managing Director of Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA),…
Lagos to deliver second phase of Blue Rail project in 2027
•Says commercial operations will start on Red Line in second quarter of 2024 Lagos State Government, yesterday, said the second phase of the Blue Line…
Witness Details How Visa Flagged Naira Marley’s Credit Card
The 10th prosecution witness in the trial of Nigerian singer, Azeez Fashola, popularly known as Naira Marley, Dein Whyte, an investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes…
Guard of ex-Gambian president Yahya Jammeh gets life in jail for murder
A German court on Thursday sentenced Bai L. a guard of Gambian President Yahya Jammeh to life in prison for crimes against humanity, murder and attempted murder that led to the death of a journalist and two other opponents of…
APC names billionaires Indimi, Rabiu, Soname, Jack Rich, others into Standing Committees
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has released the names of those appointed into its Standing Committees on Establishment, Finance, Publicity, Intergovernmental, Conflict and Resolutions. The Finance Committee has several…
Enough is enough – Adeboye bans indecent dressing in Redemption Camp
The General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye has threatened to impose sanctions on any resident of the Redemption Camp who is not decently dressed. The Redemption Camp is the…
Obaseki Reacts to Shaibu’s Declaration, Reveals Next Move
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has stated that the millions of supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state will determine the fate of his deputy, Philip…
Ogun governor, Abiodun visits family of slain director of finance [PHOTOS]
Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, on Thursday, paid a condolence visit to the family of the late director of finance and administration at the Taiwo Oyekanmi. Politics Nigeria reports that Oyekanmi was killed by…
Ohanaeze Ndigbo hails Tinubu over planned release of Nnamdi Kanu, reveals date
Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, has expressed support for President Tinubu’s decision to consider releasing Nnamdi Kanu from detention.According…
Native doctor bags 12 months jail for killing neighbour’s cow
An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court on Thursday sentenced a 45-year-old native doctor, Michael Oyewole, to 12 months imprisonment for killing his neighbour’s cow. The…
Wife Hits Husband With Pressing Iron, Destroys his 90 Sets Of Clothes For Chatting With Girlfriends
A Kano State Shari’a court sitting in Rijiyar Lemu has ordered the remand of a woman, Hafsa Ibrahim, for hitting her husband, Jamilu Muhammad, with a…
FBI fines U.S. manufacturer $1.7 million for shipping multibillion-naira farming equipment to ‘Yahoo…
Oregon Tool Incorporated, a U.S.-based company that sells farming equipment and precision cutting tools, has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to pay $1.7 million fine for shipping…
Awori monarch lectures Oba of Benin on ‘founders’ of Lagos
The Olofin of Isheri and Adimula of Awori Kingdom, Oba Sulaimon Bamgbade has described recent claim by the Oba of Benin Oba N’Edo Uku Apolokpolo, Eheneden Erediauwa, Ewuare II about the founders and initial…
Reports of my death were not fake – Rapper Oladips
Renowned rapper Oladipupo Oladimeji, known as Oladips, has debunked claims that he faked his death as a publicity stunt for his latest album, ‘Superhero Adugbo.’ The management of the musician had stated on November 15,…
Lagos bans closure of streets for parties, social events, offenders to be arrested, prosecuted
The Lagos State Government through the Lagos State Taskforce has condemned in its entirety the way and manner in which some residents in some parts of the State close inner roads/streets to hold social events thereby…
EFCC withdraws money laundering charge against ex-Lagos attorney general Shasore
The Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday, withdrew the money laundering charge preferred against Olasupo Shasore, SAN, following a directive by the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and…